Watercolours illustrating Captain Cook's last voyage, ca. 1773-1784 / John Webber
Watercolours illustrating Captain Cook's last voyage, ca. 1773-1784 / John Webber
Watercolours illustrating Captain Cook's last voyage, ca. 1773-1784 / John Webber
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Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1773-1784
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Physical Description
Contents
46 drawings - 23 x 17 - 40 x 66 cm - watercolour
3 prints - engravings
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
40 drawings by J. Webber (5 signed, 2 dated), together with 6 watercolours of the first voyage, including one signed by J. Barralet, and 3 engraved portraits.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Watercolours illustrating Captain Cook's last voyage, ca. 1773-1784 / John Webber
Variant title
'Illustrations of Cook's voyages: original drawings by Webber' -- spine title on original volume
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Photocopy of relevant page and notes on Tahitian costume filed at PXX2n.
Contents list is filed with the volume and in the Mitchell Library Reading Room.
Digital order no:Album ID : 823751
Signature / Inscriptions
Pictures titles inscribed in pencil on mount below image.
Conservation note
Cover of original volume housed separately.
Volume disbound in 1986 and rehoused in window mounts in 6 volumes -- DL cat. card.
Description source
Catalogue information based on DL PXX 2 contents list and catalogue card
Object History
Offered by Maggs Bros., Catalogue No. 491, Lot 127, 1927
Published information
Numbers 14, 15, 43, 44, 45 & 46 correspond to engraved plates nos. 7, 16, 1, 2, 5, 6 respectively in: An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty, for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swall...
Contextual Information
Source
Bequest of Sir William Dixson, 1952
Administrative / Biographical history
In 1776, John Webber (1752-1793) was appointed topographical artist on the Resolution and sailed with James Cook on the third voyage, 1776-1780. Cook's first voyage sailed 1768-1771 and his second voyage from 1772-1775 -- Australian Encyclopaedia
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Record Identifier
1JkmDgXY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1JkmDgXY
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Reference code
455685
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